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Marc Cooper / Los Angeles Times:
Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity — What, exactly, are the protesters protesting? The marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires? — The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Left Behind? — Glenn Reynolds today pens an op-ed hailing the “tea-party” “movement” as a post-partisan, spontaneous uprising of ordinary folks against the establishment of both parties. He makes no mention of Pajamas Media's heavy investment in the events, nor Fox News' endless touting …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal:
Tax Day Becomes Protest Day — How the tea parties could change American politics. — Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed “tea parties” — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending.
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Michelle Malkin:
A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started — It's here! — For the Johnny-Come-Latelys in the MSM who will be dispatched by their editors to file obligatory stories about the hundreds of Tax Day Tea Party protests across the country today, here is a cheat sheet to get you up to speed.
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
As Fox Host Denies Tea Parties Are ‘A Right-Wing Conspiracy,’ Fox Chyron Touts AmericanSolutions.Com — As part of the network's day-long promotion of the anti-Obama tea parties, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson interviewed three tea party organizers on Fox and Friends this morning.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘TEA PARTIES’: THE NEXT GRASS-ROOTS MOVEMENT? — Yes: We conservatives have decided to take our grievances to the streets — Who is the leader of the conservative movement? Is it Michael Steele at the Republican National Committee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, or even Rush Limbaugh?
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Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
CNBC Asks Santelli to React to Tea Parties: 'I'm Pretty Proud of This' — Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor reporter and taxpayer tea party revolt inspiration calls movement ‘about as American as it gets.’ — Business & Media Institute — While Fox News has celebrated the Taxpayer Tea Party rallies …
Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:
Protesters' Plan to Dump Tea Is Prohibited — There will be no tea-dumping in the Potomac River — that's illegal — but organizers of today's national tea party tax protest found out this morning that so is their plan to dump a million tea bags in Lafayette Square to demonstrate displeasure at government spending and tax policies.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: TEA TIME — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
FIRST THOUGHTS: TEA TIME — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
The Second Rule of Tea Parties Is You Don't Talk About Tea Parties
The Second Rule of Tea Parties Is You Don't Talk About Tea Parties
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Tea Parties a Test of Conservative Online Organizing
Tea Parties a Test of Conservative Online Organizing
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Jesse James DeConto / Raleigh News & Observer:
Protest stops Tancredo's UNC speech — CHAPEL HILL — UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Look Like Tea Party Crashers
When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Look Like Tea Party Crashers
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos — Top Officials at Odds Over Whether to Withhold Some Details on Interrogation Tactics — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interrogations …
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Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Ron Paul's plan to fend off pirates — A little-known congressional power could help the federal government keep the Somali pirates in check — and possibly do it for a discount price. — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and a growing number of national security experts are calling on Congress …
Washington Whispers:
Is the GOP Waving Bye-Bye to Sarah Palin? — Worse than Dan Quayle before her, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's bright star has fast faded in the eyes of Washington Republican officials and analysts, calling into question her efforts to become a national party figure ready to run for the White House.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In Minnesota, a Battle Without End for a Senate Seat — ST. PAUL — Norm Coleman spends his days in the quiet living room of his small house here, thumbing through stacks of legal papers. His United States Senate staff and offices vanished at the start of the year, as did his salary …
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Afghan Women Protest New Restrictive Law — KABUL — The young women stepped off the bus and moved toward the protest march just beginning on the other side of the street when they were spotted by a mob of men. — “Get out of here, you whores!” the men shouted. “Get out!”
The Week Magazine:
The Panic of 1825 — If you're not satisfied with Paul Krugman or Nouriel Roubini as your guide to the current turmoil, you can always rely on E.M. Forster. It was Forster who grasped the essential drawback of the Internet long before anyone else, depicting, in his 1909 story “The Machine Stops” …
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Colin Clark / DoD Buzz:
SEAL Sniper Details Trickle In — For those Buzz readers hungry for detail about the Somali pirates, my buddy Christian over at DefenseTech offers some details about the techniques behind the SEAL sniper shots. Read on for some info about the firearms used and who probably played in this most satisfying incident at sea.
Chicago Tribune:
IRS workers see double standard on tax errors — The Treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn't pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration, or their spouses. — Now, as Wednesday's tax deadline looms, some Americans are wondering …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
In the Age of Pirates — I've been thinking lately of starting a new school of foreign service to train U.S. diplomats. My school, though, would be very simple. It would consist of a single classroom with a desk and a chair. At the desk would be a teacher, pretending to be a foreign leader.
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
U.S. failed to use best radar for N. Korea missile — Gates refused area commander's request — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates denied permission for the U.S. Northern Command to use the Pentagon's most powerful sea-based radar to monitor North Korea's recent missile launch …
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Paul Begala / CNN:
Begala: April 15 is patriots' day — Editor's note: Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN political contributor, was a political consultant for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 and was counselor to Clinton in the White House. For another view on taxes, read here
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Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Faint Signs of Uptick in China Trade — GUANGZHOU — Chinese manufacturers of everything from tricycles to truck winches said Wednesday at the opening of Asia's biggest trade fair that their orders were starting to recover from a steep plunge over the winter but that demand from Europe …
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